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TORE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Commonly the lowest molding at the base of a column
Synonyms:
tore; torus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("tore" is a kind of...):
molding; moulding (a decorative strip used for ornamentation or finishing)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple of the verb tear
Context examples:
I thought with a sensation of madness on my promise of creating another like to him, and trembling with passion, tore to pieces the thing on which I was engaged.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
From my note-book I tore out a page, and from the ammunition box took a shot-gun shell.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
They were all tied by the neck with strong withes fastened to a beam; they held their food between the claws of their fore feet, and tore it with their teeth.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Then she tore her hair and beat her breast, and abandoned herself to all the violences of extravagant emotion.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
She screamed with fright as he seized her dress in his teeth and dragged on it till the frail fabric tore away.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
He sprang upon Buck, and twice his teeth sank into his unresisting foe and ripped and tore the flesh to the bone.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Mrs. March's warning was evidently thrown away, for five minutes later Laurie tore by the window on his own fleet horse, riding as if for his life.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It was a barbed arrow-head in my breast; it tore me when I tried to extract it; it sickened me when remembrance thrust it farther in.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The Wicked Witch was so angry when she saw her black bees in little heaps like fine coal that she stamped her foot and tore her hair and gnashed her teeth.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
I began one, “How can I ever hope, my dear Agnes, to efface from your remembrance the disgusting impression”—there I didn't like it, and then I tore it up.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
